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The paper takes into consideration a number of important issues related to the relationship between psychic dynamics and anxieties related to climate change and the environmental crisis. It analyses the context of studies and reflections on environmental issues from different disciplinary levels: philosophical, socio-anthropological, ecological, economic and literary, and then deepens them into a more specifically psychoanalytic context. As a result, the various defence mechanisms that operate on the individual and collective level with the aim of reducing the anxieties related to man's impact on the environment in terms of compromising the balance of the relationship between man and the nonhuman environment in the current geological era defined by scientists as ‘Anthropocene’ are highlighted. The forms of denialism, negation, and disavowal are analysed in their complexity by correlating the anxieties related to environmental catastrophes both at the level of macrosocial phenomena and in the fallout of the individual unconscious and in the psychoanalytic clinic.
KEY WORDS: Anthropocene, climate change, climate denialism, disavowal, negation, human and non-human environment.